Sentences with phrase «changes to their school discipline»

At noon, New York City school teachers gather to call on de Blasio and the NYC Council to fully fund and implement changes to school discipline programs proposed last year by the Mayor's Leadership Team on School Climate and Discipline, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

February 17, 2016 (New York)-- New York City schoolteachers gathered on the steps of City Hall today to call on Mayor de Blasio to fully fund and implement changes to school discipline programs proposed last year by his own task force.

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The deterioration of neighborhoods in our inner cities, the decline of elemental safety — never mind education — in many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risk.

It may well be that, in addition to requiring a coherent picture of ministry, recovery of unity in a course of study requires profound changes in the way in which critical inquiry is conducted in disciplined ways within theological schools.

At any point in our parenting journeys, we can reflect back on our early days as mothers or fathers and glow in the knowledge of how much we have changed since that... first positive pregnancy test... or our oldest child's birth... or a seemingly endless night of breastfeeding... or our struggle with learning how to do positive discipline... or the first day of school... or our daughter's first basketball win... or our son's first crush... or our child's high school graduation... or our daughter's wedding... or our son's first child...

If your child's behavior problems aren't changing when you incorporate discipline strategies, if his behavior is interfering with school or his social life, or if his behavior is not age appropriate, it's likely time to seek help.

«Changes made are minor and won't provide systemic change,» said Sarah Landes, a member of the Dignity in Schools Campaign, a collection of teachers, students and youth organizations working to reduce suspension and mandate alternative discipline methods.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew and other educators at the Changing School Climate breakfast discussion on March 23 at union headquarters in Manhattan said the Positive Learning Collaborative and Community Learning Schools are proven methods to help students cope with emotional issues and improve school disciSchool Climate breakfast discussion on March 23 at union headquarters in Manhattan said the Positive Learning Collaborative and Community Learning Schools are proven methods to help students cope with emotional issues and improve school discischool discipline.

Local parents of elementary - age kids have set out to make Hogg a school they and their neighbors want to send their kids to, which means higher test scores, tighter discipline, and a college - prep curriculum - changes they believe will benefit all children, not just their own.

Second, despite a decade of calls by everyone from leading educators to leaders in the business community to shift our schooling from fact - based learning structured by academic disciplines to one that develops creative, flexible thinkers using a more interdisciplinary approach, this change is still not happening in any widespread way.

We recommended the DfE to strongly urge schools to review the curriculum time they give to Computing as a discrete subject, in view of the changes to the Computing curriculum, with a view to treating it like other longer - established disciplines.

Withdrawing that guidance could slow the pace of change in the area of school discipline, but it would only do so if districts decide to change their approach as the pressure from the federal government recedes.

Of the program - and policy - based alternatives to exclusionary discipline, Steinberg and Lacoe report the most evidence for, and positive effects from, the Schoolwide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SWPBIS) program, a strategy that aims to change a school culture by setting clear behavioral expectations, laying out a continuum of consequences for infractions, and reinforcing positive behavior.

They are not mutually exclusive; and providing both does not mean teachers need to change their disciplines or for schools to reorganise their timetables.

Washington — The Reagan Administration, as part of the President's school - discipline initiative, is considering the feasibility of changing a civil - rights law that has been blamed for making school officials unwilling to discipline students, a Justice Department official said at one of two Congressional hearings on school discipline last week.

Then we all laughed as we changed our colors from red to blue to purple to orange — all «uh-oh» colors in the school's discipline system!»

Recently, the CRDC has revealed inequities in school discipline and chronic absenteeism that have led to important policy changes.

Just as the Internet promises to change the delivery of instruction, it challenges as well the administration of school discipline.

Establishing a coherent lesson study programme can change the culture of a school, and if it allows teachers from different disciplines to see each other teach, so much the better.

Or Chicago, where a 2015 study found that changes to its discipline code were associated with a decline in student and teacher perceptions of school safety.

Changes to district policies guiding school discipline and student conduct constitute a direct approach to reducing exclusionary discipline.

With further research focused on these key questions, we may come to better understand the implications of discipline policy reforms — how they affect suspension use, and also how they change school climate; interactions among students, peers, and teachers; and the academic performance of all students.

With our most difficult students, the current way schools try to discipline students does not change their behavior, and often it escalates the problems.

Finally, I provide the first evidence on how charter school entry may be related to changes in teacher perceptions of practices at district schools along five indexes: academic expectations, communication, engagement, school respect and discipline, and school safety.

Major Responsibilities Develop relationships with faculty and staff as a means to foster a positive school climate; analyze achievement and discipline data to find leverage point for system change; create user - friendly, service - oriented administrative team that focuses on overall student growth.

«The key lever to changing schools is changing systems, which means you have to change the labor - management dynamic to be one that is very disciplined and very collaborative,» she said, noting the combative environment in New York, a finalist state that didn't have an overwhelming amount of local district and union buy - in.

But there also could be «unintended consequences,» with schools changing suspension policies or switching to other forms of «exclusionary discipline,» Bellwether said.

Both traditional and charter schools need to change discipline policies to ensure practices do not lead to discrimination of students with disabilities.

In the wake of federal data that shows continued disparities in discipline in schools across the country, the webinar will focus on how advocates and organizers can use the data to spark change in their communities.

This shift in discipline policy would eliminate or reduce more traditional punitive practices like suspension currently adopted by many schools to a restorative justice model that would employ techniques such as peer mediation, student justice panels, and «give back» resolutions to change student behavior.

ONE Houston scored a big win when the school district was persuaded to change its discipline policies.

«New York Assembly Bill 3873 will change the course for a generation of students by ensuring schools work with families to promote positive discipline strategies and social emotional learning; practices collectively known as restorative justice,» said Claudia Whittingham, special education teacher at PS 59 in Brooklyn and member of E4E - New York.

We recently spoke to administrators from three urban and suburban Oregon middle schools dedicated to keeping students in school and who are collecting data that show their success in changing their discipline policies and practices.

First, acknowledging that middle level students (age 10 - 14) learn differently than their elementary and high school friends and siblings, they began by reviewing the developmental research on young adolescents and taking those unique learning needs as a starting point for planning changes in classroom instruction, increasing electives, providing intervention, reviewing their discipline procedures, and attending to the social and emotional needs, a key to success with middle level student success.

Larry: What Federal and / or state policy changes do you think would do the most to ensure continued progress in creating supportive school discipline and fostering equity in our schools?

Petrilli argued that it required schools to reduce suspensions without providing any supports, but Jimenez and Kristen Harper of Child Trends argued that it did not require any changes without supports, but instead called attention to a discipline crisis where students of color were punished more regularly and harshly than their white peers.

It's not always easy to tell whether the new approaches help overall student performance, because schools interested in this type of experimentation are often innovating in other ways as well: changing grading policies, moving to more project - based learning models and rethinking discipline strategies.

I believe that as we change our discipline practices and policies, we will learn about other practices we need to change in order to close the achievement gaps in every one of our schools.

Banning out of school suspensions would require school Districts and families to make a lot of changes in discipline.

She made the case that changing our approach discipline in our schools is a huge challenge, and that both students and adults need to develop new skills to help build a stronger school community.

The discipline policy shifts by a range of governments have yielded real change: In 2014, California became the first state in the nation to ban «willful defiance» suspensions for its youngest students — a category of misconduct that includes refusing to remove a hat, to wear the school uniform, or to turn off a cell phone.

Principal Bruno then worked with parents to change the school culture and implemented a school - wide discipline plan that focuses on positive reinforcement.

The 3rd Edition of the Guide incorporates updates from bills enacted by the Regular Session of the 85th Texas Legislature affecting charter school student discipline, including an entirely new section addressing changes to the state's bullying laws.

The campaign comes as Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) move to implement a resolution agreement from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights to change their policies after an investigation revealed racial disparities in discipline.

Our recent wins — from equitable school funding to more fair discipline policies have created an opportunity for great change in our schools.

Fortunately, three solid school board candidates seek to bring change, restore fiscal discipline to the district, focus on the needs of the students and give teachers the support they need to educate children.

She started by changing school discipline policies from punitive to restorative, and training teachers on restorative justice practices.

Since 2012, Chavez Schools has been dedicated to changing our approach to discipline, taking the focus off of...

Restorative justice practices, which involve students responsible for violence or other issues in schools in determining consequences for their behavior, are the primary tool the administration has employed to change the way it metes out discipline.

Youth and community organizing efforts have been winning changes to harsh and discriminatory school discipline practices across the country.